[UK-CONTEST] Typing skills (or lack of)

[Ian & Steph Fugler (G4IIY)]

Ah, I think that I have spotted the reason for your super skills, Dave. 
Most of us have only eight fingers and thumbs!

Ian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Typing skills (or lack of)


> On 15 Aug 2011 at 19:41, Ken Eastty wrote:
>
>> There are some operators who type with one hand whilst at the same time
>> keying with the other in which case touch typing wouldn't help,
>
> When I am working people my hands are all over the place, rapidly
> moving between the keyboard (while receiving exchanges), the paddle
> when sending and the tuning knob between QSOs. And grabbing a slurp
> from the cup of tea by the side. But while typing my two hands and ten
> fingers and thumbs are where they should be - hovering over the home
> keys. My eyes of course are on the screen watching what I am typing.
> This is so instinctive you don't need to think about it. Once you can
> touch type you ALWAYS do so, it is impossible to do it with two fingers
> or one hand (and you won't find any spelling errors in this email
> either...).
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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